marble

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   A hard, smooth stone, often white or patterned, used in buildings and statues.

   The grand hall had a floor of polished white marble.

2. 2
   verb

   To give something a streaked, swirled pattern like marble.

   She marbled the paper using paint floating on water.

Inherited from Middle English marble, marbre; from Anglo-Norman and Old French marbre, from Latin marmor, from Ancient Greek μάρμαρος (mármaros), perhaps related to μαρμάρεος (marmáreos, “gleaming”). The forms from French displaced Old English marma, which had previously been borrowed from Latin.

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